Doras carinatus
Linnaeus, 1766
(Type species)
Length (total)
approx. 30 cm
Standard length (documented)
195.0 mm
Recommended tank size
200 cm
Bolívar (VEN), Sipaliwini
Brazil, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Venezuela
Río Cuyuní ➙ Essequibo River | Coeroeni River ➙ Corantijn River ⇒ Atlantic NE
[ 3.325,-54.063 ]
Nutrition (mostly): omnivore
detritus, inverbrates (aquatic) (invertebrates (aquatic)), inverbrates (terrestrial) (invertebrates (terrestris)), vegetable fibers, algae
Eats plants
not known
unknown
present
iv - vi / (8 -) 10 (- 11) rays
7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, round to greatly incised / concave, round
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 6 (- 7) rays
(8 -) 9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
iv - vi / (8 -) 10 (- 11) rays
7 + 8 soft rays
incised / concave, round to greatly incised / concave, round
little longer at the bottom than at the top
II / 6 (- 7) rays
(8 -) 9 (- 11) soft rays
6 soft rays
Not on the positive list of Brazil in 2012 : The positive list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
Not on the negative list of Brazil from 2020 : The negative list of Brazil
- Reis, R.E., Kullander, S.O. & Ferraris, C.J. et.al., 2003 "Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America" P. 460
- Linné, C.von, 1766 "Pisces" (Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Ed. 12 Vol. 1 No. 1, P. 1)
- Mérona, B. de; Vigouroux, R. & Horeau, V., 2003 "Changes in food resources and their utilization by fish assemblages in a large tropical reservoir in South America (Petit-Saut Dam, French Guiana)" (Acta Oecologica, Vol. 24, P. 147)
- Ferraris, C.J. jr., 2007 "Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types (I)" (Zootaxa, Vol. 1418, P. 171)
- Sabaj Pérez, M.H. & Birindelli, J.L.O., 2008 "Taxonomic revision of extant Doras Lacepède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Doradidae) with descriptions of three new species" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 157, P. 199)
- Birindelli, José L.O., 2014 "Phylogenetic relationships of the South American Doradoidea (Ostariophysi: Siluriformes)" (Neotropical Ichthyology, Vol. 12 No. 3, P. 538)
- Arce H.,M., 2015 "Mandibular, hyoid and pectoral musculature of thorny catfishes (Siluriformes: Doradidae)" (Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 164 No. 1, P. 229)
- DoNascimiento, C.; Herrera-Callazos, E.E.; Herrera-R., G.A.; Ortega-Lara, A.; Villa-Navarro, F.A.; Oviedo, J.S.U. & Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A., 2017 "Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia: a Darwin Core alternative to the updating problem - Species deleted from the Colombian continental ichthyofauna" (ZooKeys, Vol. 708, P. 22)
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